Big Mosquito Testing
Published: Fri, 07/13/18
There had been a great deal of rain in the previous weeks, and then a good dose of sun and heat. So the grass had grown very fast and long in a short amount of time. And that long grass was VERY attractive to swarms and armadas of flying bugs!
... there were these small midge type gnat bugs (I don't know their exact species, ha), but they didn't bite, although they did annoy ...
... there were typical black flies, big and small, and luckily it was too early in the season for these guys to be biting ..
... and then of course there were some mosquitos. And they were hungry.
Now, it wasn't all mosquitos. In fact, doing the numbers, mosquitos were in the minority. For every 5 bugs that we swatted away, probably 1 was a mosquito. It was a numbers game -- you had to go to lot of effort in order to just swat 1 mosquito! And because of the sheer numbers, the mosquitos still made away with gallons of our blood!
It was just a numbers game.
On the positive side, the bats woke up around 10:30pm, and put on quite an aerial show as they swooped all around, eating the smorgassboard of bugs. So, we had to wait awhile, and swat a lot of bugs, but at night there was a nice "air show" for our efforts!
This reminds me of metals and minerals testing.
It can be a numbers game, too.
Sometimes it takes multiple samples, from a variety of locations in order to find the right concentrations and quality of metals and minerals. You have to "swat" plenty of times to get these "mosquitos" too.
To help your budget out, during the summer minerals and exploration season, we are offering some great pricing on our popular testing packages:
- $750 for Frac sand initial testing package - includes washing and processing, sieve analysis, sphericity and roundness (1 size), bulk density (1 size), crush resistance test at initial API recommended stress (1 size): Special pricing of $750 (normally $950)
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But like the mosquito, this deal won't last long (it ends September 30, 2018). To get us started on testing for you, contact us!